Shock in Iraq after woman throws her two children into the Tigris River

Shock and fury swept through Iraq after a video of a woman throwing her two small children over a bridge into the Tigris River rose.

Iraqi officials said on Monday that security forces were capable to identify and capture the woman.

The event took place during the early hours of October 17. CCTV footage released by authorities revealed the mother throwing the children over the al-Aimmah Bridge into the Tigris River.

A heartbreaking video of the father of the two children at the scene of the crime also spread virally on Monday, where he looked crying for his two children while rescue teams sought for the two drowned toddlers in the river.

During an inquiry, the woman admitted that she had killed the children because of a conflict with her husband who was seeking a divorce.

“This crime had been long planned for. It has been nearly two months since this woman separated from her husband,” the Kurdish Rudaw website quoted Abu Tahsin Deraji, the children’s paternal grandparent, as saying.